During World War I the pavilion was used as a hospital for US Navy sailors.

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The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.

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The Peel Group, an infrastructure and real-estate outfit, hosted a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo last year.

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He was still studying architecture in 1989, aged 23, when he was selected to design the Finnish pavilion at the Seville World Fair.

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By 1920, his Ocean Pavilion restaurant was touted as the largest in the world.

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Meanwhile, in Spain, organizers constructed a pavilion from 45, 000 recycled milk cartons, winning the world record for a construction project using a recycled material.

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